Without a doubt, the easiest to understand, most comprehensive tutorial on blending exposures. Will definitely check out many more of your videos. THANK YOU!!!
It is very nice to see your face, Jimmy! I'm proud owner of your Raya Pro and hard core follower of your instructions. Thank you for your excellent product and great tutorials!
Jimmy I had to find you 5 years ago. You wil be my teacher now. Great tutorials, and clear explaining. Thank you so very much, you made and invalid photograph very very happy. I've downloaded your easy panel. Now you are going to learn me to work with it. Thanks Jimmy, thank you very much. Greetings from The Netherlands , Toine
learning a lot from you Jimmy. Thanks a lot. I think tutorials like these where we actually see your face are much pleasing than just seeing a computer's screen.
You are amazing... I realy love the fact that you have a gentle way to share your knowleged and also an amazing character! I really find your videos helpfull every time... Keep up and remeber, you are always welcome in Greece, here in the mountains where I live...
Wow, you sir are a wizard! Thank you for this and all of your other tutorials. I really enjoy listening to you explaining stuff and a big plus for showing how to do stuff without Raya Pro too and not just trying to sell it. That made me wan't to buy it even more. Well done! Looking forward to your next video. :)
I love this format, with you in the small screen explaining. Would be cool to see you out in the field in oregon taking the pictures also. Like a vlog.
I follow lots of youtube tutorials on post-processing...But honestly I find ur ones to be most helpful. thanks for doing this.. Keep it up.. and yes, good to see u finally :D ..
Hey guys, buy Raya pro and you'll quickly forget of how you blended images before that or used hdr software which gave unnatural results. Jimmy, thanks a lot for having made this powerful tool! Kind that you still mention blending options for non-raya pro ppl, you are a lord!
WoW!!! it's like watching a super-hero without the mask! haha!, I feel like when I first saw the KISS members without their makeup, haha!, Thanks again for all your great tutorials!
Hey Jimmy, ty for all these tutorials. They have completely changed the quality of my edits. Exposure bracketing/blending is 99% of what I need to do when editing photos, since I mainly do landscapes and astroscapes. I have purchased your Rayo Pro software, but am still learning it. I'm just curious as to what wide-angle lens you use. I have the Tamron 10-24mm G2 on my D500, which has been great for me, but I'm just wondering if upgrading to an FX system would have a significant improvement to my results. Do you have any experience with the difference between using DX vs FX glass? Was their a noticeable difference in your prints (I do medium-large prints....40x60 or 60x90cm). The upgrade to an FX system would likely be several thousand dollars, so I was just curious as to what your thoughts were.
This does produce natural results but for some reason people like using HDR software because of the surreal results that it gives, I am going to experiment with the ways that you teach to see what it does for me, thanks mate.
Fantastic video Jimmy! It was a trip finally seeing the face to go with the voice. Thank you for summarizing all of the various digital blending techniques. I always learn so much from your channel. I'll need to check out your Milky Way tutorial.
Great Tutorial bro! And thanks for the Easy Panel, very useful in Luminosity Masking. Before I had that, I always use the manual masking of parts of the image I want to adjust.But now, with Easy Panel, it's so easy to select everything I need to adjust in the picture.
thanks for sharing your thoughts and teachings , when you shoot do you soot for highlights and process for shadows or the opposite , also what is the best settings for the camera metering in your experience
Great Video Jimmy, and happy to see you've decided to include yourself in the demo this time! I think its a great direction and it just adds to the charisma that your teaching methods already embody! I wish i had been able to make it out to attend your sessions at the Out of Chicago Conference, but this certainly helps make up for it!
When using blend diff on a PC you only have to hold Alt down to split the sliders. Not sure if it applies to Mac. Love the vids thank you for making them!
I was wondering about how you create the over and under exposed images. Are you shooting 3 separate images on your camera or using a single raw and creating a mid-level, over, and under-exposed images from the single raw? I've never seen that explained anywhere before.
nice thanks for the video, can we have a detailed video about frequency separation.....I still not figuring out how remove lens flare without missing the Sky up...
Love your tutorials, Jimmy! I mainly use the 32-bit HDR method in PS, and fine tune the TIFF file with luminosity masks. For me, I usually have the best success with that, since I take brackets of seven images. I need to upgrade from CS6, so I can get your Raya Pro panel!
Thanks for the comment. 32 bit is a decent way to go. It doesn't give us perfect control over the exposure blending process, and isn't idea for more complex scenes, but it is significantly better than most tone mapping options out there
Absolutely great Jimmy! Glad to got Raya Pro, it brings you so much time back in the blending process and it has so much power! Thanks for it and your tutorials and to share your cleverness with us.
Jimmy, I have a question and really hope you can answer it, why do the highlights in cityscape images look odd with a bit of grey cast or grey colour after you restore them in luminosity mask or colour range? I mean the colours in the highlights don't look the same like in the original dark exposure where we restored the highlights from. It seems that it is more natural and almost flawless if we actually use the midtones channel instead of bright channel but it is frustrating as you need to brush carefully, any explanation will be much appreciated mate! cheers.
Wow! Jimmu McIntyre , really here!!! =)))))))))).. nice to see your face mate after watching all of your educational videos, which thaught me alot!!! =))).I envy you resting ot that wooden house!!! Thank you all for your education Jimmy, we are waiting for more !! )))
Great video Jimmy, much better to see the person who is doing the video. I had trouble getting my head around luminosity masks before as i was selecting the mask then running the actions and I wasn't able to "paint" the details where i wanted them as it was applying the full mask but this video has explained where i was going wrong. Just to put this in context...I done a HDR of a shot in Chicago a couple of years ago and then redone it after you uploaded this using luminosity masks and there was a world of difference between them - the HDR now looks complete rubbish but the luminosity one looks much better.......And that got into explore on Flickr!! Cheers Jimmy!
Jimmy you are genius of Photography and Photoshop, and talented teacher thank you very much for useful tutorial !!!! And more videos with your face Jimmy it makes videos more vital!!!
thanks for this nice tutorial! :D will come back and rewatch it, every now and then, till i learnd aaaall the techniques ;D
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Hello Jimmy from Europe, perfect tutorial as usual. Thank you and keep on please. I also have your Raya pro - great tool, I use it very often together with Viveza - Nik collection. And beware of the bears .-)
Hi Jimmy, first off, great tutorial! Second, I notice that many of the images you make in photoshop are jpgs. Is there any benefit to using RAW files in photoshop using these same techniques?
A question keeps coming up for me when you're using Apply Image with Raya Pro (I'm a new user to your software) - what makes you determine which to use (Dark 1,2,3 or Bright 1,2,3) - are 1,2,3 just different levels of "dark" or "bright" or is there some other factor here? Or is the 1,2,3 a stronger mask selection? Thanks!
Hi Jimmy, thanks for all the awesome videos. I have one question, I am trying to blend two photos and I am getting some gray areas in the result. I remember you showed how to fix that somewhere but I can't find it atm. Halp ; ) All best!
Great video again, Jimmy! Thank you. Boy, was I surprised to see the face behind the voice - wasn't expecting that and for a second I thought "Hang on a minute, who's this bloke and why is he speaking with Jimmy McIntyre's voice?" :) Nice to see the face of such a talented man, and you're a natural in front of a camera.
Hi Jimmy, when i try use the easy panel it doesnt seem to affect just the brights selection that i have done, when i paint over the image it paints over the whole thing rather than brights 1. I have done it exactly like you did it in the easy panel tutorial. Any ideas on what im doing wrong?
Wonderful! I picked up the panel over the weekend and can't wait to use it for Milky Way shots. Do you do much for panoramic shots of the Milky Way? I wonder how the panel would be useful for stitched images. Keep it up!
Hi there, absolutely! In the past could of months I've published 2 Milky Way panos, both using Raya Pro. I also created a pano tutorial recently which you can see on my UA-cam channel. There's a Milky Way pano included in there :)
+Jimmy McIntyre Wonderful! I'll have to check it out. I got a little ambitious and did an 8 x 5 pano of the Milky Way over a lake. The image was stitched in PS but I'm dealing with some insane warping! I'll check your tutorial out and also brush up on the course that came with your panel!
Jimmy, thx for another great video! Nice to see your face :) I translated some of your text tutorials and posted them into my blog. With link to the original of course and with your name. So.. Could I translate your video tutorials to russian language too? I need your approvement because of UA-cam rules. It will be your original video with your voice on background and my louder voice on the foreground. So.. are you agree?
I Jimmy. I've been watching your videos since a long time ago. I really like the results you get after retouching your images. They really looks really nice and natural. I have decided to follow many of your online tutorials and also bought a pack about how to use your luminosity masks. I have followed every step very precisely and I ended up with completely different results. Once I select any of channels layers, brights, midtones or darks channels and then return to the image, if i paint over the image to blend layers, the selection is not working and basically the images are not blend correctly. You have patches of the image below regardless of the selection. Also, the masks I try to create for a layer are always created on black. Cannot create it on black as you have on your videos. Also, to end up with an image "similar" to yours, I have to paint the mask on the image instead of doing in on the layer as you always do. If I do it like you do, nothing is changed. This is very frustrating! I never get nothing 10% close of what I suppose to get following any of your tutorials. I am using a MacBook Pro with 16 GB Ram, OS X Yosemite and PhotoShop CC2014. I am also using your JM Luminance Masks. Do you know if there is any missing configuration I have to perform to be able to fix this? Tanks in advance and regards, Marquicio
Hi there, That sounds very strange indeed. Would it be possible for you to record your screen of all of these problems and send me the video? You can contact me through the contact form on shutter evolve or through strange lenses. I'm sure that the problems will be easily fixed. Thanks Jimmy
This is awesome.... exactly what UA-cam is all about.... any body recommend good channels explaining the basics of actually taking long-exposure photographs? I have decent photoshop skills but actually taking night shots an long exposure confuses me to no end... hopefullw there is a channel as generous and efficient as this one! :D
Without a doubt, the easiest to understand, most comprehensive tutorial on blending exposures. Will definitely check out many more of your videos. THANK YOU!!!
Happy to hear that!
How awesome to seeyou in person and not only hear your voice. My favorite PS master! Thanks Jimmy!
Brilliant summary pulling all of these together in one short tutorial. Nice to meet you at last.
This might just be the best tutorial on exposure blending I have ever seen! Thank you so much for sharing this!
It is very nice to see your face, Jimmy! I'm proud owner of your Raya Pro and hard core follower of your instructions. Thank you for your excellent product and great tutorials!
Jimmy I had to find you 5 years ago. You wil be my teacher now. Great tutorials, and clear explaining. Thank you so very much, you made and invalid photograph very very happy. I've downloaded your easy panel. Now you are going to learn me to work with it. Thanks Jimmy, thank you very much. Greetings from The Netherlands , Toine
learning a lot from you Jimmy. Thanks a lot. I think tutorials like these where we actually see your face are much pleasing than just seeing a computer's screen.
You are amazing...
I realy love the fact that you have a gentle way to share your knowleged and also an amazing character!
I really find your videos helpfull every time...
Keep up and remeber, you are always welcome in Greece, here in the mountains where I live...
Wow, you sir are a wizard! Thank you for this and all of your other tutorials. I really enjoy listening to you explaining stuff and a big plus for showing how to do stuff without Raya Pro too and not just trying to sell it. That made me wan't to buy it even more. Well done! Looking forward to your next video. :)
Hi, it is nice to see you Jimmy. i have to thank you for your very helpful tutorials.
I love this format, with you in the small screen explaining. Would be cool to see you out in the field in oregon taking the pictures also. Like a vlog.
Again it was a pleasure to listen and to learn!
I follow lots of youtube tutorials on post-processing...But honestly I find ur ones to be most helpful. thanks for doing this.. Keep it up.. and yes, good to see u finally :D ..
That's great to hear. Thank you!
Hey guys, buy Raya pro and you'll quickly forget of how you blended images before that or used hdr software which gave unnatural results. Jimmy, thanks a lot for having made this powerful tool! Kind that you still mention blending options for non-raya pro ppl, you are a lord!
Great to see you in person, Jimmy. Awesome tutorial as always, much appreciated. Thanks, Simon
WoW!!! it's like watching a super-hero without the mask! haha!, I feel like when I first saw the KISS members without their makeup, haha!, Thanks again for all your great tutorials!
Haha, maybe I need some crazy make up and let my tongue dangle out my mouth the entire tutorial :)
I lol so much
Hey Jimmy, ty for all these tutorials. They have completely changed the quality of my edits. Exposure bracketing/blending is 99% of what I need to do when editing photos, since I mainly do landscapes and astroscapes. I have purchased your Rayo Pro software, but am still learning it. I'm just curious as to what wide-angle lens you use. I have the Tamron 10-24mm G2 on my D500, which has been great for me, but I'm just wondering if upgrading to an FX system would have a significant improvement to my results. Do you have any experience with the difference between using DX vs FX glass? Was their a noticeable difference in your prints (I do medium-large prints....40x60 or 60x90cm). The upgrade to an FX system would likely be several thousand dollars, so I was just curious as to what your thoughts were.
This does produce natural results but for some reason people like using HDR software because of the surreal results that it gives, I am going to experiment with the ways that you teach to see what it does for me, thanks mate.
Brilliant...used HDR all the time this is fantastic..subscribed.
Another great and super-clear tutorial, Jimmy. Really like being able to see you during the discussion, too!
You´re an amazing teacher Jimmy. Thank you
Fantastic video Jimmy! It was a trip finally seeing the face to go with the voice. Thank you for summarizing all of the various digital blending techniques. I always learn so much from your channel. I'll need to check out your Milky Way tutorial.
Superb techniques Jimmy! Thank you very much for your tutorials!!!
Great to see your face Jimmy! Thanks for sharing it with us. Always lovely to have a face with the voice I have been listening to for a while now :)
Excellent demo Jimmy!
This tutorial is "too good". Wow. Thank you Jimmy!
Great tutorial. Learnd some new stuff. Thanks!
Thank you, that helped and saved me a lot of time!
You're welcome!
amazing. this is summary for all your tutorials. thank you for sharing. wish you the best
Great Tutorial bro! And thanks for the Easy Panel, very useful in Luminosity Masking. Before I had that, I always use the manual masking of parts of the image I want to adjust.But now, with Easy Panel, it's so easy to select everything I need to adjust in the picture.
Awesome video summing up all the techniques. Lovely work you are doing, I learn so much from your videos, thank you!
That is pure gold! Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Bro you rock ! No apologies needed. Thanks for your videos. You are a master of Blending :)
finally a face behind the beautiful voice! thank you very much for your tutorials and your great job with them
Very nice and fast explanation,thanks is very useful.
You're the man Jimmy, love your videos!
Thank you very much for the video, i always learn a lot watching them.
thanks for sharing your thoughts and teachings , when you shoot do you soot for highlights and process for shadows or the opposite , also what is the best settings for the camera metering in your experience
Great Video Jimmy, and happy to see you've decided to include yourself in the demo this time! I think its a great direction and it just adds to the charisma that your teaching methods already embody! I wish i had been able to make it out to attend your sessions at the Out of Chicago Conference, but this certainly helps make up for it!
Hi Jimmy! Thanks very much. Without the R Pro, what is your most preferred exposure blending method? :)
When using blend diff on a PC you only have to hold Alt down to split the sliders. Not sure if it applies to Mac. Love the vids thank you for making them!
Another extremely useful video 😃
what wach you using, i like the style kkkkkkkkkkk, your tutorials is really impressive, i learn a lot becouse of you, thank you!!!!
brilliant tutorial Jimmy! you are a great tutor.
I was wondering about how you create the over and under exposed images. Are you shooting 3 separate images on your camera or using a single raw and creating a mid-level, over, and under-exposed images from the single raw? I've never seen that explained anywhere before.
Thanks a lot for your good tutorials!
I'm wondering if Serge will bring out a video tutorial now covering this topic 😄😄
I should've watched your videos earlier. They are so helpful and bring my photography to a different level.
brill tutorial , thanks jimmy
Thanks,great work friend!
nice thanks for the video, can we have a detailed video about frequency separation.....I still not figuring out how remove lens flare without missing the Sky up...
wow so nice tutorial from you. The last image is from Dubai and its on Shereton Hotel Level 43. I am going to shoot there this Thursday night.
You sir are a wizard!
This tuto goes instantly in my favorite ! :)
Thanks Jimmy !
Love your tutorials, Jimmy! I mainly use the 32-bit HDR method in PS, and fine tune the TIFF file with luminosity masks. For me, I usually have the best success with that, since I take brackets of seven images. I need to upgrade from CS6, so I can get your Raya Pro panel!
Thanks for the comment. 32 bit is a decent way to go. It doesn't give us perfect control over the exposure blending process, and isn't idea for more complex scenes, but it is significantly better than most tone mapping options out there
Absolutely great Jimmy! Glad to got Raya Pro, it brings you so much time back in the blending process and it has so much power! Thanks for it and your tutorials and to share your cleverness with us.
That's fantastic to hear. Thank you!
Thank you for the video, Jimmy! Your tutorials are amazing and very helpful. Please continue to share your knowledge :)
Excellent! Thank you Jimmy.
Jimmy, I have a question and really hope you can answer it, why do the highlights in cityscape images look odd with a bit of grey cast or grey colour after you restore them in luminosity mask or colour range? I mean the colours in the highlights don't look the same like in the original dark exposure where we restored the highlights from. It seems that it is more natural and almost flawless if we actually use the midtones channel instead of bright channel but it is frustrating as you need to brush carefully, any explanation will be much appreciated mate! cheers.
Wow! Jimmu McIntyre , really here!!! =)))))))))).. nice to see your face mate after watching all of your educational videos, which thaught me alot!!! =))).I envy you resting ot that wooden house!!! Thank you all for your education Jimmy, we are waiting for more !! )))
Great video Jimmy, much better to see the person who is doing the video. I had trouble getting my head around luminosity masks before as i was selecting the mask then running the actions and I wasn't able to "paint" the details where i wanted them as it was applying the full mask but this video has explained where i was going wrong. Just to put this in context...I done a HDR of a shot in Chicago a couple of years ago and then redone it after you uploaded this using luminosity masks and there was a world of difference between them - the HDR now looks complete rubbish but the luminosity one looks much better.......And that got into explore on Flickr!! Cheers Jimmy!
Jimmy you are genius of Photography and Photoshop, and talented teacher thank you very much for useful tutorial !!!! And more videos with your face Jimmy it makes videos more vital!!!
that was fantastic! thanks a lot!!
thanks for this nice tutorial! :D
will come back and rewatch it, every now and then, till i learnd aaaall the techniques ;D
Hello Jimmy from Europe, perfect tutorial as usual. Thank you and keep on please. I also have your Raya pro - great tool, I use it very often together with Viveza - Nik collection. And beware of the bears .-)
How many stops different between images, A genius by the way
Hi Jimmy, first off, great tutorial! Second, I notice that many of the images you make in photoshop are jpgs. Is there any benefit to using RAW files in photoshop using these same techniques?
Awsome tipps! Thanks!
Subscribed! Thank you Jimmy.
Your videos are awesome dude. Thank you so much!
Amazing. Can you do similar with video?
Jimmy could you do a video showing how to install Raya Pro on a Mac? I've tried to install the program and failed.
Asome tutorial!
A question keeps coming up for me when you're using Apply Image with Raya Pro (I'm a new user to your software) - what makes you determine which to use (Dark 1,2,3 or Bright 1,2,3) - are 1,2,3 just different levels of "dark" or "bright" or is there some other factor here? Or is the 1,2,3 a stronger mask selection? Thanks!
Hi Jimmy,
thanks for all the awesome videos. I have one question, I am trying to blend two photos and I am getting some gray areas in the result. I remember you showed how to fix that somewhere but I can't find it atm. Halp ; ) All best!
Great video again, Jimmy! Thank you. Boy, was I surprised to see the face behind the voice - wasn't expecting that and for a second I thought "Hang on a minute, who's this bloke and why is he speaking with Jimmy McIntyre's voice?" :) Nice to see the face of such a talented man, and you're a natural in front of a camera.
Haha, it seems, according to a few comments here, that my voice and face don't match up :)
Hi Jimmy, when i try use the easy panel it doesnt seem to affect just the brights selection that i have done, when i paint over the image it paints over the whole thing rather than brights 1. I have done it exactly like you did it in the easy panel tutorial. Any ideas on what im doing wrong?
You rock Jimmy!
this is great, but why not edit in raw? What would be the advantages of editing this way?
Wonderful! I picked up the panel over the weekend and can't wait to use it for Milky Way shots. Do you do much for panoramic shots of the Milky Way? I wonder how the panel would be useful for stitched images. Keep it up!
Hi there, absolutely! In the past could of months I've published 2 Milky Way panos, both using Raya Pro. I also created a pano tutorial recently which you can see on my UA-cam channel. There's a Milky Way pano included in there :)
+Jimmy McIntyre Wonderful! I'll have to check it out. I got a little ambitious and did an 8 x 5 pano of the Milky Way over a lake. The image was stitched in PS but I'm dealing with some insane warping! I'll check your tutorial out and also brush up on the course that came with your panel!
Here's a link to the tutorial. It will certainly help with warping: ua-cam.com/video/k8TDy1Bi3RM/v-deo.html
Awesome. Thanks! I think I might have to do smaller panos;I think the 8 wide and 5 tall was a little much for PS to handle!
Hey Jimmy. I notice your apply image method is done with 3x exposures. Is there a way to do it with more?
It's very nice to see your face Jimmy ;-) Continue like this!!
Do you do any processing in ACR or Lightroom before or after editing in photoshop?
Fantastic!
Jimmy, thx for another great video! Nice to see your face :)
I translated some of your text tutorials and posted them into my blog. With link to the original of course and with your name.
So.. Could I translate your video tutorials to russian language too?
I need your approvement because of UA-cam rules.
It will be your original video with your voice on background and my louder voice on the foreground. So.. are you agree?
Nice one Jimmy! Really helpful video...Sure your the spittin image of yerself!! ;)
i feel like going there and hug you for this helpful video :)) first money i take m gona buy raya pro ... thank you very much sir
you're a great GURU
extremely helpfull
I Jimmy. I've been watching your videos since a long time ago. I really like the results you get after retouching your images. They really looks really nice and natural.
I have decided to follow many of your online tutorials and also bought a pack about how to use your luminosity masks. I have followed every step very precisely and I ended up with completely different results. Once I select any of channels layers, brights, midtones or darks channels and then return to the image, if i paint over the image to blend layers, the selection is not working and basically the images are not blend correctly. You have patches of the image below regardless of the selection.
Also, the masks I try to create for a layer are always created on black. Cannot create it on black as you have on your videos. Also, to end up with an image "similar" to yours, I have to paint the mask on the image instead of doing in on the layer as you always do. If I do it like you do, nothing is changed. This is very frustrating! I never get nothing 10% close of what I suppose to get following any of your tutorials.
I am using a MacBook Pro with 16 GB Ram, OS X Yosemite and PhotoShop CC2014. I am also using your JM Luminance Masks.
Do you know if there is any missing configuration I have to perform to be able to fix this?
Tanks in advance and regards,
Marquicio
Hi there,
That sounds very strange indeed. Would it be possible for you to record your screen of all of these problems and send me the video? You can contact me through the contact form on shutter evolve or through strange lenses. I'm sure that the problems will be easily fixed.
Thanks
Jimmy
This is awesome.... exactly what UA-cam is all about.... any body recommend good channels explaining the basics of actually taking long-exposure photographs? I have decent photoshop skills but actually taking night shots an long exposure confuses me to no end... hopefullw there is a channel as generous and efficient as this one! :D
You're in my neighborhood Jimmy. I live in Welches on the south side of Mount Hood. I could have shown you around.
so weird seeing you :D but this must be your best video so far
that was amazing.
what's the difference between bright 1,2,3 in Raya?
Hi jimmy! You were only few miles away from me I wish I knew that. I would have come to say hi. I love your tutorials keep the good work.
hi jimmy i just got photoshop but i dont know how to add the 3 multiple exposure folders into photoshop to work on them please help
great! thanks~
Thank you
thank you very very much